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Miranda S

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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
ATTENTION ALL ACADEMICS: If your university has discouraged you from leaving a public comment on the OMB rule proposal, WE NEED TO KNOW. Comment here, DM me, or email info (@) standupforscience (dot) net to tell @standupforscience.net your affiliation. Screenshots appreciated!
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Wrote a little about the work the U.S. put into helping academics escape fascism during WWII and why we can't rely on that for our future www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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No One Is Coming to Save Us
The realization can either break you or liberate you.
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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Quite shocked by this hands-off statement from Egli, who led the work: “As a scientist, you can provide the data for discussion, but then essentially there you stop and let others take over”. No. It is your responsibility to think things through and maybe even… not do them.
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
But we don't have enough money for the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium?
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Shefali S. Kulkarni @shefalikulkarni.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Some phone numbers no longer worked. Others had escaped Gaza. Some, we learned, had been killed... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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We Tried to Reach Gazans We Interviewed Over Two Years of War. Here’s What Happened to Them. (Gift Article)
We kept wondering: Did they find their missing relatives? Were they even still alive?
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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
So the American taxpayer eats it twice, once on tariffs and again on a second farm bailout. I’m glad farmers are getting help, no one should lose their farm, but it’s remarkable how fast “socialism” stops being a dirty word when the checks clear in red counties.
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Lisa Fazio @lkfazio.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
New from me and @brendannyhan.bsky.social Why Trump's "Compact for Academic Excellence" is a devil's bargain and should be rejected in all forms www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.
Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/10/2025
READ ⬇️ Stand Up For Science Statement on Compact Corrupting Higher Education.
10/2/2025: Stand Up For Science Statement on Compact Corrupting Higher Education. 

Washington, D.C. — Today, the administration has unveiled their proposed "compact" for higher education. This document is antithetical to the free academic inquiry that forms the foundation of American excellence in higher education. Further, while the compact is framed as a way to promote fairness in higher education, this compact runs counter to the scientific method by prioritizing federal grant funding to go to universities who have signed, rather than proposals that have been selected by experts.
We call on university leaders to unite and reject this overreach of executive power by the White House. The compact lies in the context of an ongoing and multi-pronged attack on the integrity of the American scientific ecosystem, but this also tangibly represents the President seizing control of public spaces and higher education. Each university represents a beacon of free thought, vibrant educational empowerment, and public enrichment, and we must demand President Trump stay out of dictating universities."Trump's compact is yet another form of attack on the American institutions that provide evidence that counter's the core belief of MAGA — racism, misogyny, and regression of the human race to name a few. If universities agree to these terms, academic freedom in America will be over," says Colette Delawalla Founder and Director of Stand Up For Science. She continues "when the White House takes over what is defined as 'truth' regardless of scientific evidence, we are no longer in a free nation. Universities must understanding the seriousness of this moment and respond accordingly."Stand Up For Science will reliably sound the alarm when science and scientists are under attack, and our platform empowers scientists to speak out and organize against corruption of American science. The proposing of this document represents an extreme authoritarian escalation for American higher education. It is crucial that university leaders, congress and the public stand together to protect higher education from this attack.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Here's the assignment folks. Write op-eds for your local papers and campus newspapers too. Just. Say. No. This is a classic authoritarian move and risks the future of higher education and science and innovation in the US. Speak out today. No time to lose. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...
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Opinion | Trump’s ‘Compact’ With Universities Is Just Extortion
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Three teens were critically wounded Wednesday in a shooting at a high school in the foothills of suburban Denver, including the suspected shooter, authorities said.
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3 teens critically wounded in shooting at suburban Denver high school, including suspected shooter
Authorities say three teens were critically wounded in a shooting at a suburban Denver high school, including the suspected shooter.
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Abby Sliva @abbysliva.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
One was an 8-year-old boy who loved “his family, friends, fishing, cooking and any sport that he was allowed to play.” The other, a 10-year-old girl “whose laughter, kindness and spirit touched everyone who knew her.”
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Families identify the two children killed in shooting at Annunciation Church
Fletcher Merkel loved family, friends and fishing; Harper Moyski doted on her younger sister.
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Miranda S @m1rsch.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Not only are we stifling current research, we're preventing the next generation from receiving training they need to jumpstart their scientific and health careers. Faculty like my grad advisor who pour their valuable time and energy into securing these opportunities are left picking up the pieces.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 21/08/2025
🐤Promise you this is one you'll want to say you were a part of... Help us get our 'ducks in a row' and IMPEACH AND REMOVE THAT DANG QUACK!!!! 📣🦆📣🦆📣🦆📣🦆 Link here: tinyurl.com/sufsci
rainbow rubber duckies all in a line
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57–67%.
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Miranda S @m1rsch.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The cruelty is beyond comprehension. They were carrying baby formula, medicine, and stuffed animals.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 23/07/2025
I really hope complex life has formed elsewhere in the universe and that it worked out better than it has on earth
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Jon Munitz @jonmunitz.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached. They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others. Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further. #UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.
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Miranda S @m1rsch.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
@repgwenmoore.bsky.social @baldwin.senate.gov There are 7 Americans aboard, you have a duty to protect your citizens!
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Gaza Freedom Flotilla Coalition @freedomflotilla.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
#AllEyesOnDeck: ALL communications with #Handala's crew have been JAMMED. We lost all contact with our crew, and there are multiple drones near the vessel. Keep your eyes on the #FreedomFlotilla tracker. Tag & message your governments & elected officials! freedomflotilla.org/ffc-tracker/
ALL communications with 'Handala's crew have been jammed. We lost all contact with our crew, and there are multiple drones near the vessel.
Which means they could've been intercepted or attacked.
Check the next slides to help >We need you to pressure for the safety of our crew.
Tag and message your government representatives and local media to pressure Israel to let 'Handala' to, and guarantee a safe passage to Gaza.
Keep your eyes on the tracker on our website.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
We’re already seeing the real-world impact. In South Memphis, particularly in Boxtown, a neighborhood long burdened by industrial pollution, residents are now facing a new threat: up to 35 unpermitted methane gas turbines powering xAI’s “Colossus” supercomputer.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
These data centers are notoriously energy and water intensive using millions of gallons of water daily and consuming electricity at rates that rival entire cities. And under this new policy, they can now be built without the oversight meant to protect air quality, local ecosystems and public health.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.
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19thnews @19thnews.org · 21/07/2025
Parents reduced their work hours and used the money to invest in their children’s lives — moving to better housing, enrolling them in extracurricular activities, switching schools or ensuring their kids got additional support. www.instagram.com/p/DMYa-YbsGo7/
Image of a parent holding their child in a room near a bed and a bookshelf. Below the image text reads: "Single parents said guaranteed income programs made them better parents New data found parents were able to spend more time with their kids and invest in their lives."
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Judson Memorial Church (New York), instructing us that “if empathy is a sin, sin boldly.”
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 16/07/2025
ICE now has a larger budget than most of the world’s militaries. A reminder that police have only ever *responded* to alleged crime, but a living wage, food & water security, & accessible healthcare have always *prevented* crime. So if you want safer communities, invest in people—not punishments.
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Game Changer @gamechanger.dropout.tv · 15/07/2025
Presenting the BRAND-NEW season - @dimension20.bsky.social On a Bus! 🚌 DM'd by Katie Marovitch, and as players: Aabria Iyengar, Brennan Lee Mulligan, Jasmine Bhullar, and Mark Mercer!
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 09/06/2025
LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"The ship was unlawfully boarded, its unarmed civilian crew abducted, and its life-saving cargo—including baby formula, food and medical supplies—confiscated."
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Karyn Frick @karynfrick.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Check out our new review to learn about the history of menopausal hormone therapy and how me and my team at Estrigenix Therapeutics are trying to provide new treatment options for women! @neuroendoawf.bsky.social @m1rsch.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Not your mother's hormone therapy: Highly selective estrogen receptor beta agonists as next-generation therapies for menopausal symptom relief
Although the menopausal transition causes a panoply of unpleasant and disruptive symptoms, many women are reluctant to use estrogen-based treatments d…
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/05/2025
The bipartisan framing of Chinese people as dangerous to the United States has been building up for years and has created this deeply racist and xenophobic opening for the Trump administration. I stand with my Chinese colleagues and all of our Chinese students. 🧪
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Trump administration to crack down on Chinese visas, applicants, Rubio says
Rubio said the State and Homeland Security departments will work to “aggressively revoke” visas of Chinese students in the United States, “including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Par...
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The Ferrari Lab @theferrarilab.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The Ivy League should be preparing mutual defense agreements that would allow students to transfer, even just nominally, to any other Ivy. Then the Big10 should do the same. We succeed together, we fail apart.
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Katrina Miller @katrinamillerphd.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
an overwhelming percentage of cuts at the NSF are to STEM education. experts see it as part of a broader attack on DEI, as well as on education as a whole. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/s...
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Funding Cuts Are a ‘Gut Punch’ for STEM Education Researchers
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
To everyone who is saying “oh we can get funding somewhere else…” you are missing the entire point. The funding cuts to academia are a symptom of the cancer of fascism. Hope that helps.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Some protests happening this weekend so time to re-up this banger
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Two 70 million dollar fighter jets fell off a Navy ship and into the ocean in the past couple weeks. But sure, cancer research, SIDS prevention, and milk safety testing are ~wasteful~ 💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️💁🏻‍♀️
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 13/05/2025
🚨 EASY-TO-TAKE ACTION ALERT! 🚨 Want to do something to protect the integrity of the federal civil service? Submit a public comment! Not sure how to do that and what to say? I have a comment you can submit! 🧪🔭⚛️ Details here: news.chanda.science/archive/urge...
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Urgent: Take Action to Protect Public Services
Photo by Katie Rodriguez on Unsplash I have something you can do in five minutes or less that can help salvage the integrity of the federal civil service,...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
"The findings suggest that if scientists want to increase public urgency around climate change, they should highlight clear, concrete shifts instead of slow-moving trends. That could include the loss of white Christmases or outdoor summer activities..." grist.org/science/brea...
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Scientists just found a way to break through climate apathy
In a field of muddy results, it's among the clearest findings that one cognitive scientist has seen in his career.
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
**Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program** -- $25,000 grants earmarked for early-career researchers whose NSF-funded research on STEM and education has just been terminated. www.spencer.org/grant_types/... hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/28/j... Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social !
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Malnutrition and hunger are becoming increasingly prevalent in the Gaza Strip as Israel’s total blockade enters its third month.
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AP PHOTOS: Many in Gaza face malnutrition and hunger as blockade enters its third month
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — Malnutrition and hunger are becoming increasingly prevalent in the Gaza Strip as Israel’s total blockade enters its third month.
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50501 Milwaukee @50501-mke.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Developing now: Judge Dugan has since been released. We are calling for a rapid community response: Join Voces de La Frontera at 3 pm at the Federal Building (517 E Wisconsin) to say NO to the charges against Judge Dugan.
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FBI arrests Milwaukee judge, alleging she interfered in immigration operation
FBI Director Kash Patel said in a since-deleted post on X that the bureau believed the judge "intentionally misdirected federal agents" seeking to arrest an undocumented immigrant.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/04/2025
At least three people who are obsessed with criticizing me are being published in this book and I just want to point out that I travel and write regularly making the case for science funding and why cosmology is imporrant and these guys have had fuck all to say about science funding
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Pouring out a little liquor today for the handful of women astronauts who survived years of onerous training, men, and men only to have the press make Katy Perry their equal.
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Kristen DeAngelis 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🍉 @kristenobacter.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
This is not a drill. Three Florida public colleges (UF, UCF, USF) are deputizing campus police into immigration agents. This is no way to treat our students, and will erode public education as a whole. It’s a fast track to losing our world-class tech strength and the fabric of our communities. 🚨🚨🚨 🧪
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Florida universities to deputize campus police for immigration enforcement
The police departments of at least three public universities in Florida are seeking agreements with the federal government to carry out immigration enforcement on campus.
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Tony Michaels @thetonymichaels.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
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The Daily Northwestern @thedailynu.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Several current and former Northwestern students’ visas have been terminated by the Department of Homeland Security, a University spokesperson told The Daily.
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U.S. government terminates “limited number” of NU student visas
Several current and former Northwestern students’ visas have been terminated by the Department of Homeland Security, a University spokesperson confirmed to The Daily. The spokesperson said the Univers...
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The lesson for universities is you may as well fight back. You'll lose the money either way. The only question is whether you keep your dignity.
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